OPINION: OK, I goofed. Although it's been amended since then, any of you who read this column before Thursday will have noticed that I misattributed the recent words of Warren Ellis to M. Ali Choudhury, who reported them to me. (Amongst those who caught t...
Before I begin this week's column, I have an announcement to make: my last COMICSCAPE column will be Wednesday, February 2, and my last review for CINESCAPE for the time being will also appear that week. I'm sure there's at least one or two readers who wi...
I know it's a time-honored tradition in comics for the cover artwork to have nothing to do with the story inside. I know that. But what really gets my hinder is when two characters appear in costume on the cover and only one appears in costume inside - an...
OPINION: As I write this, I'm on a train to visit a friend in Atlanta, my laptop perched on a pillow on my knees, a techno version of the 60s SPIDER-MAN theme blaring in my headphones, and a huge picture of a Dalek from DOCTOR WHO staring out at me from t...
OPINION: Don't let the title to this column fool you: I'm well aware that the difference between Marvel and DC is actually huge, to the point that, even now, there are still people who are avid fans of one company and who refuse to buy any books published...
On the way to St. Roch, Selina is attacked by members of an ancient Egyptian cult, one whose temple she accidentally happened upon in Manhatten the month before. A visit to Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders reveals that the cultists are after something they...
Ever since CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, the Hawks have gotten a rum deal. First their continuity was heavily screwed over, then the new continuity was messed up by the well-done but poorly-timed HAWKWORLD miniseries, and then came ZERO HOUR-about which the ...
OPINION: First of all, thanks for the continued responses to the extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2. As I figured, the strongly held opinions of our first pack of readers led to the expression of other strongly held opinions, and were I to print them all, w...
Last time we took a look at the Silver Age Hawkman and the very beginnings of his long and tangled career as a solo adventurer and a member of the Justice League of America, but now we must enter one of the most confusing bits of DC history ever devised -...
In the ravaged plains of the Sudan, a young child is offered to a being the tribesmen call the Shining One. In New Orleans, Denise Waters' autistic daughter Ellie is abducted by a mysterious silvery figure, a creature that closely resembles the alien face...
HAWKMAN returns in an ongoing title in March from DC Comics. The series, spinning out of JSA, is written by James Robinson and Geoff Johns, with art by Rags Morales.Here's how DC describes the series:"Prince Khufu's 'soul mate' has been reincarnated into ...